• n. 普羅，無產者；工人
• adj. 普羅階級的，無產階級的

來自拉丁語proletarius,最低等級公民，來自proles,子孫，后代。因在古羅馬時期，這一社會等級的公民免除兵役及稅收，他們存在的唯一價值就是向古羅馬帝國新開拓的領地移民以開發。具體參照class詞源。后被借用于指無產階級，無產者。

proletarian

proletarian: [17] A Roman citizen of the lowest class was termed a prōlētārius. The only service he was capable of performing for the state was that of producing children, to maintain its population level, and it was this function that gave the prōlētārius his name. For it was derived from prōlēs ‘offspring’, a word based on the same source (*ol- ‘nourish’) as produced English adolescent, alimony, etc.

The abbreviation prole dates back to the late 19th century (George Bernard Shaw is the first writer on record as using it), but it was George Orwell in the 1930s who firmly established the term. The immediate source of proletariat [19] is French prolétariat (in the 19th century it was often anglicized to proletariate). English is also indebted to Latin prōlēs for prolific [17], which comes from the medieval Latin derivative prōlificus ‘producing offspring’.
=> adolescent, alimentary, alimony, prolific

proletarian

1650s (n.) "member of the lowest class;" 1660s (adj.) "of the lowest class of people;" with -ian + Latin proletarius "citizen of the lowest class" (as an adjective, "relating to offspring"), in ancient Rome, propertyless people, exempted from taxes and military service, who served the state only by having children; from proles "offspring, progeny" (see prolific).

1. We must now set about building a proletarian socialist state in Russia.

我們必須現在就開始在俄國建立一個無產階級社會主義國家.

來自演講部分

2. Dr. Norman Bethune impersonates the spirit of proletarian internationalism.

白求恩醫生體現了無產階級國際主義精神.

來自辭典例句

3. He is the father of proletarian literature.

他是無產階級文學的奠基人.

來自辭典例句

4. The menu, prepared by White House chef Jon Hill , was anything but proletarian.

白宮廚師喬恩·布爾準備的佳肴無所不有.

來自辭典例句

5. The serf an assured existence, the proletarian has not.

農奴生活有保障, 無產者生活無保障.

來自互聯網